Quiz of the Day - 12 December 2012

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Identify the cyclist from the photograph captured by Reinhold Thiele.

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Quiz of the Day - 23 October 2012

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A very recent happening forms the day's quiz question.

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The painting on the right hand side is the only known picture of the lady in question. She has been in the news very recently and has achieved a very first in her class.

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Identify her and tell us about her achievement.

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Answer: She is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, baptised as Catherine Tekakwitha and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680). Born in present-day New York, she survived smallpox and was orphaned as a child, then baptized as a Roman Catholic and settled for the last years of her life at the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France, now Canada. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980 and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica on October 21, 2012, thereby becoming the very first Native American to be done so.
Congratulations to Ali and Karan, who have successfully cracked this question.

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Daily quiz with answer

Quiz of the Day - 2 October 2012

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A blast from the past for the daily quiz.
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The photo on the right hand side was taken some 3-4 years ago. The lady in the photo had achieved international prominence some times ago.
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Simply identify the lady and tell us about what led to her prominence.
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Answer: Many of my generation would remember her as a real salty character. She is Pamella Chaudry Singh nee Bordes.
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Quiz of the Day - 17 September 2012

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We continue with the identification part for the daily quiz.

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The photo on the right hand side was taken around 50 years ago. These two gentlemen are famous in their own right and I, personally, have been touched by them, in a figurative way.

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Simply identify them and tell us about their claim to fame.

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Frank and Dan Carney, founders of Pizza Hut business quiz
Answer: Frank and Dan Carney. In 1958, the pair of brothers from Wichita, Kansas, Frank and Dan, founded the Pizza Hut franchisee. Having started in the food business, by working for their father, a local grocer, they borrowed $600 from their mother to convert a 600-square foot bar into a pizzeria, which later on grew in to the behemoth that we know today as Pizza Hut. Congratulations Ali for cracking this! :)

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Quiz of the Day - 10 September 2012

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A tribute question for the daily quiz.

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This gentleman was born on this same day, i.e. 10 September of 1872. He has been lauded as one of the greatest ever in his chosen discipline. The photograph on the right hand side, captures him cycling in the year 1897.

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Identify the personality.

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Answer: He is K.S. Ranjitsinji indeed. And of course, "woh bahut pahle kircket-vircket-wa khela karte the!" Congratulations to Justice Sir, Ali and Sunny Hasija for getting the answer right! :)

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Quiz of the Day - 30 August 2012

An interesting lady debuts on this daily quiz.

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The black and white picture on the right hand side shows a charming lady, and is undated, but believed to have been taken in 2010.

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You have a real simple job to perform. Simply identify her and tell us the reason behind her fame.

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nada prouty druze quiz
Answer: It's Nada Prouty indeed. A Druze by faith, she migrated to the USA and after a sham marriage, became a US citizen. Subsequently, she joined FBI and CIA. She was involved in high-profile investigations and special-ops in Iraq and the middle-East for CIA. Ultimately, her sham marriage caught up with her and she was removed from the CIA. About her experiences, she has written a book titled, "Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab-American Patriot in the CIA". Some right-wing US authors have used the term "Jihad Jane" to describe her, which, as usual, only shows their absolute lack of knowledge about anything, which is outside the American shore!
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Ali, as expected, came up trumps! Congrats mate! :)
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Quiz of the Day - 19 August 2012

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Could somehow manage some time to put up couple of questions for the daily quiz.

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Here's an easy one. From the photo on the right, identify this famous personality and tell us what made him famous.

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Answer: The answer is Hugh Hefner. And, do I still need to tell why he is famous? Well, he created Playboy, the magazine, as well as the enterprise and all mankind has been thankful to him since then, for the playmates! Congrats Ali and Paras for getting this correct!

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daily quiz with answer

Quiz of the Day - 23 April 2012

His father was an Indian Civil Services officer and mother was the daughter of an Indian railroad engineer. He was conceived in India, but born in England. A brilliant mathematician, his death has resulted in analogies being drawn to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It has also been suggested that Apple's logo, in actuality, is a tribute to him. Identify the person.
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Answer: It is Alan Mathison Turing indeed.
A mathematical genius, probably he changed the final outcome of WWII by deciphering the German Enigma codes. Prior to that, the U-boats were having a free run in the Atlantic. Known for Halting problem, Turing machine, Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Automatic Computing Engine, Turing Award, Turing Test, Turing patterns, his  homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Turing was treated after the war.
On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead; the cause of death was later determined to be cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide, it is speculated that this was the means by which a fatal dose was delivered. David Leavitt has suggested that Turing was re-enacting a scene from the 1937 film Snow White, his favourite fairy tale, pointing out that he took "an especially keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Witch immerses her apple in the poisonous brew." It has also been speculated, but officially denied, that Apple's logo was designed as a tribute to Touring.

Quiz of the Day - 20 March 2012

Identify the two great scientists.

This Bengali gentleman, was a scholar in Physics and Biosciences. One of his works in Physics/Communication is thought to be completed earlier than the corresponding/similar ones in the Western Countries. His student, another Indian Physicist, can never be forgotten in the field of Particle Physics and is best known for his work on Quantum Mechanics in the early 1920s.

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Answers along with the names of persons with the correct response will be published tomorrow.

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Answers: Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose & his student, Prof. Satyen Bose.

Quiz of the Day - 18 March 2012

Identify the person.

The son of a school teacher, this well known Chief Executive's journey from a village in Gujarat to the boardroom of one of India's most respected conglomerates, started in 1965. Now he is going to pen a memoir, the working title of which has been decided as 'V to W', i.e. from Village to World.

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Answer: He is A. M. Naik, the current Boss of Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro. At 70, he is ready to handover the reigns to his successor and will devote time to write the memoir in question.
Unfortunately, no correct entries this time! :(

Quiz of the Day - 17 March 2012

Like many others, he also came to Mumbai to try his luck in Bollywood and acted in Jugnu, a Dharmendra-Hema Malini starrer & Anjaan Rahen along with Firoz Khan & Asha Parekh. But, we don't know him for his acting prowess and his claim to fame is due to his current profession, in which he deals with many high profile criminals. Identify the person.

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The names of persons getting the answer correct, will be displayed along with the answer tomorrow, i.e. 18th March 2012.
Answer: He is Abbas Kazmi. After finding little success in acting, he became a lawyer and had also worked as a Financial Adviser in Saudi Arabia. He attained fame after defending the accused of 1993 Bombay Bomb Blast. His (in)famous clients included Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi, Suspected perpetrators of Gulshan Kumar's Murder & Ajmal Kasab.


Persons who answered it correctly are - 

1. Sathish
2. Pramod N.
3. Joydeep Dutta &
4. Md. Mortaza Mukul

Congratulations gentlemen!